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The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Sapporo or Winter Park, Colorado?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Sapporo for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’s own page.

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Sapporo 28, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Sapporo leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Sapporo 80, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Sapporo leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Sapporo 40, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Sapporo leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Sapporo 62, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Sapporo leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sapporo 86, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Sapporo 64, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Sapporo leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Sapporo 72, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Sapporo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Sapporo 80, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Sapporo leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Sapporo 58, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Sapporo leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Sapporo 60, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Sapporo leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sapporo 44, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Sapporo leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sapporo 80, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Sapporo leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sapporo and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SapporoWinter Park, Colorado

Where the figures come from

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSapporoWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageJapanese-
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation5 m2,759 m
Main airportNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSapporoWinter Park, Colorado
City population1,959,3131,033
People per km²1,74724
Museums within 10 km330
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.